Mobile Patent Roundup 1-26-2007 – Reranking Searches by Language Used

This week’s granted patents and published patent applications sees an old patented system from Google with a new reranking feature, a mobile sports tv, a multimodal wireless device from Microsoft, a cancelled internet access service for air travel which provided a geographic search service, a context aware user interface, wireless vending machine auditing, mobile scanning, and a platform for mobile services.

Imagine attending a sporting event, and having a handheld device that you can watch the race or the game upon from the stands, and from your tailgate party in the parking lot. That’s part of the premise behind Kangaroo.tv.

Google was granted a patent under the same name last November, and this newer version is a continuation of the old one which describes using numeric keypad entries to stand for letters of a query term in a search. What the new filing adds is a reranking of search result received by a searcher based upon the language that they use.

Describes a portable device that accepts many different input types, including optical character recognition, voice, handwriting, and visual, and allows for those to be fused together into a single documents that incorporate the different forms of input.

Appears to have offered geographic related search capabilities based upon the destination of a commercial flight. The Connexion service offered by Boeing is mentioned here, which Boeing was offering, and then abandoned.

A mobile device might show different types of tasks on a context sensitive menu, such as one set of applications when it senses that its user is driving, and another set when it can determine from a calendar that its user is on vacation.

A programmatic framework that can be used to make it easier to develop and use different services for mobile devices. It includes mobile service resource application programming interfaces as well as a resource driver manager and mobile service resource drivers.

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